[OpenIndiana-discuss] Fun Task - Comparing OI packages vs CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu etc

[ken mays]

Pkgsrc has 5021+ packages built on Solaris 10 SPARC/x86.
~Ken

--- On Sat, 10/23/10, Andrey N. Oktyabrski <ano at bestmx.ru> wrote:

> From: Andrey N. Oktyabrski <ano at bestmx.ru>
> Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Fun Task - Comparing OI packages vs CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu etc
> To: "Discussion list for OpenIndiana" <openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org>
> Date: Saturday, October 23, 2010, 2:54 AM
> On 10/23/10 04:25, Alasdair Lumsden
> wrote:
> > There are a couple of methods of doing it, but writing
> spec files for
> > pkgbuild is probably one of the more standard methods
> (although I
> > don't find spec files that easy to put together).
> James O'Gorman is
> > working on a ports tree as an alternative for people
> who prefer that
> > route, but it is not complete yet.
> Why not to use pkgsrc?